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India To Set Up Largest Asian Telescope In Himalayas In 2012
New Delhi (RIA Novosti) Aug 07, 2007A vast telescope to be made by Russian and Belgian firms will be installed in India's Himalayas in 2012, the director of an Indian research institute said Monday. Asia's largest telescope "will enable us to see four to five times deeper into space than before, and receive high-quality images," said Professor Ram Sagal of the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences. An optical gla ... more The Fall Of A Russian Space Chief 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 07, 2007Nikolai Sevastyanov, now a former president of the Energiya Space Rocket Corporation -- the flagship company of Russia's space industry -- was forced to step down on July 31 despite the support of his top management. Officially, the Russian Space Agency, or Roskosmos, has repeatedly said Sevastyanov's plans, especially those concerned with manned flights, did not fit into the 2006-2015 Federal S ... more The World's First Internet War 
Berlin (UPI) Aug 06, 2007The computer attack aimed at Estonia recently shows that the world can't ignore the dangers of cyberterrorism any longer. It was one of the biggest cyberattacks ever launched, and it nearly brought an entire country to its knees. On April 27, traffic on government and banking Web sites based in Estonia began to increase rapidly; by the next day, the hackers began to use Russian weblogs to spread ... more Japan And Russia Discuss Second Phase Of North Korea Talks 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 06, 2007Top negotiators from Japan and Russia on Monday discussed the next phase of six-party talks aimed at getting North Korea to scrap its nuclear programmes, officials here said. Tokyo's top envoy to the talks Kenichiro Sasae and his Moscow counterpart Alexander Losyukov "met in Tokyo and exchanged general opinions on how to proceed with the next phase" of the North's nuclear disarmament programme, ... more Russian Navy Must Restore Presence In Mediterranean Says Naval Commander 
Sevastopol (RIA Novosti) Aug 07, 2007Russia must restore its permanent naval presence in the Mediterranean to ensure the protection of its strategic interests in the region, the Navy commander said Friday. "The Mediterranean is an important theater of operations for the Russian Black Sea Fleet," Admiral Vladimir Masorin said, adding that the fleet's zone of control extended through the Black and Mediterranean seas toward the Atlant ... more |
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Moscow (SPX) Aug 07, 2007Russia's lucky streak continues. The price of oil, the country's main export item and its chief source of budget revenues, has once again soared to record levels. On July 31, the price of a barrel of oil gained $1.38, closing at $78.21 on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX). This is the highest it has closed on the NYMEX since the exchange began trading oil in 1983 and is close to its all-t ... more Putin Calls For Clear Foreign Investment Rules In Energy Sector 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 06, 2007Russia's president called Monday for improvements to rules for foreign investment in the country's oil and gas sector, to ensure clarity and transparency. Russia is currently developing two draft laws to regulate foreign investment in the national economy, one on strategic companies, and one on natural resources. Vladimir Putin told a meeting of Cabinet ministers and representatives of state-co ... more EBRD Gives Ukraine 368 M Euros For New Chernobyl Sarcophagus 
Kiev (AFP) Aug 07, 2007The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will donate 368 million euros to the programme to build a new sarcophagus around the Chernobyl reactor where the world's worst nuclear accident took place, Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported Monday. It quoted Emergency Situations Minister Nestor Shufrych as telling a briefing in Kiev that an agreement would be signed with the EBRD on ... more Successful Jules Verne Rendezvous Simulation At ATV Control Centre 
Toulouse, France (ESA) Aug 05, 2007For the first time, three human spaceflight mission control centres - located in three countries - have this week successfully simulated the critical rendezvous of the Automated Transfer Vehicle, the largest and most complex automatic spacecraft, with the International Space Station. The actual rendezvous will take place early in 2008 with the launch and docking of the most sophisticated spacecr ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Aug 01, 2007A senior US legislator Wednesday introduced a resolution expressing strong concern with Russia's decision to withdraw from a key European arms control pact, the 1990 Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty. Democratic Congressman Alcee Hastings, Chairman of the US Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (the US Helsinki Commission), called Moscow's move "troubling" and said it reflec ... more Arctic Wealth And Why Countries Are Jockeying Over The Roof Of The World 
Paris (AFP) Aug 02, 2007Global warming and, ironically, its main cause -- fossil fuels -- explain the intensifying squabble to claim rights over the Arctic seabed. Around a quarter of the world's oil reserves are locked up below the Arctic Ocean, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). The Arctic floor is also home to massive gas fields which are virtually unexploited, including those in the Barents Sea and in pa ... more Russia Plants Flag At North Pole To Claim Arctic Seabed Riches 
Moscow (AFP) Aug 02, 2007A Russian expedition planted the country's flag on the seabed under the North Pole on Thursday, capping a mission to claim the mineral riches of the Arctic and drawing ridicule from abroad. "The Mir-1 submarine successfully reached the bottom of the Arctic Ocean... at a depth of 4,261 metres (13,980 feet)," veteran Arctic explorer and expedition leader Artur Chilingarov told the Vesti television ... more A Future Natural Gas Cartel 
Doha, Qatar (UPI) Aug 02, 2007The April 9 meeting in Doha, Qatar, of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum attracted intense media scrutiny. Pundits speculated that the hidden agenda of the meeting, the first in two years, was to explore the possibility of developing a natural gas cartel along the lines of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Such a cartel would have immense financial and political clout in the glo ... more
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